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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1942
Page
7
Rubber industry experts say synthetic tires may rival natural rubber tires in performance once production reaches about 800,000 tons annually by 1944. They caution that wartime demand and reclaim supply limits still constrain civilian tire availability, with costs and marketing factors under study.
More than 1 000 Masons and Eastern Stars from Montana gather August 19–22 in Helena for Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter sessions. The Ma sonic ball occurs August 20 with a Butte chorus guest artist, and a Masonic home reception follows August 21.
Greg Darlington arrives late with a young woman while Shorty Darlington avoids Stella, who plans to marry him again. Shorty contemplates Kay Kettering, his sharp secretary, as tension rises between loyalty, love, and a messy office romance.
A Montana visitor recounts Bermuda wartime life with high prices and strict rationing. Eggs cost 80 cents a dozen, strawberries 80 cents a quart, milk 25 cents a quart, cream 1.60, steak 70 cents a pound, cigarets 50 cents per pack, walnuts 1.30 a pound, and flour buys yeast cake with 20 cents. Bicycles are common and costly permits required. Trains are crowded and water is rain captured, rationed water priced at 4.60 a ton, blackouts and limited travel strict rules.
A 35-ton iron baler moves toward Montana to cut and press derelict autos into two foot by two foot, 1 200 pound chunks for steel mills. Sam D. Goza notes few cars can be loaded per freight car until the baler arrives, with wartime boards maintaining inventories of junk cars.
A gray owl crashes into a town to town bus windshield in Montana and a truck near Helena. Driver George Todd revives the bird and puts it off the bus while Dick Rutledge and Joe Feikovich in another vehicle fight to keep control as an owl struck the truck.
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